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Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 1595907
Format: Audiobook
Media: Audio Cassette
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Dimensions (in): 5.3 x 4.3 x 0.7
ISBN: 1840329599
Dewey Decimal Number: 909
EAN: 9781840329599
ASIN: 1840329599
Publication Date: May 9, 2005
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One of those books you just can't put down. August 11, 2007
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Giles Milton has managed to bring the facts and figures of History, to life, in this brilliant book.
This book is essential reading for anybody who would like to attain a full understanding of the Historical context of the world slave trade. However potential readers should not be worried that they will be reading a stuffy History book, as Milton manages to wrap up the Historical facts, in the inspired true life story of Thomas Pellow; which turns the book into a thrilling read.
As an educationalist l would highly recommend this book to all History students, professional or amateur, and look forward to its inclusion in future curriculums.
Not his best, but still enthralling October 11, 2006
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I have been a huge fan of Milton since Nathaniels Nutmeg, which was a phenomenal story. The whole point of his books are to take periods of history, little understood, and create a vivid story. It would be wrong to say it reads like fiction, because one is fully aware you are reading a book of history, but it is told with so much enthusiasm and poise as to make it eminently readable.
The story, as one would guess, is of the little known tale of white slaves that were captured bu the Barbary corsairs and sold to such places as Morocco and Algiers (Algeria). It goes into graphic detail about the conditions and brutality they endured, and the cruelty of their owners, particularly a despotic sultan of Morocco. I mean, you couldn't make up moulay Ismail, a brutal and ruthless villain, who was so unpredictable he could sometimes forgive even treason.
The character we follow is a chap called Thomas Pellow, captured at 11, and subjected to 23 years (ish) slavery. It follows his beatings, his enforced conversion to Islam, his rise in authority in the grandiose palace of Meknes, to when he even defied the Sultan yet lived. He then became a renegade, and thought in an army of such people, and made numerous desperate escape attempts.
Utterley absorbing. We follow sieges, naval battles, tortures, awful executions, daring emissaries, desperate escapes, betrayals. You couldn't ask for much more. If you like your history fast paced and bloody, this is for you.
Sultanly one of Milton's best July 23, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Milton has lost none of his flair for writing great narrative history. And again he brought to my attention a little-known chapter from the past and one man's truly astounding story which hitherto seems to have been largely forgotten. Very bloodthirsty, but an excellent book. As good as, if not even better than, his previous works. If you like this author, buy it now!
Fascinating..... narrative history at its best! February 4, 2006
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
In reading my friend's article on the North African slave trade, I bought this book outright when I stumbled upon in Welford Books, Albany. Milton writes extremely well, although sometimes in his narrative, packed full with descriptive facts, he does jump around events and you can get chronologically muddled. However, Milton's style is accessible for those who prefer story-based history as well as the popular/amateur historian. This book is unarguably his best! Its pages scream of adventure, devastation, perseverance and betrayal. This book displays humanity both at its best and at its worse.
White Gold July 20, 2005
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
This is an excellently written popular history of the white slave trade in North Africa. It conjures up images of the desperate situations of ordinary people caught up in an horrific system of mans' abuse of his own kind. Startling, horrifying and yet gripping. A page turner of a book.
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